Grab your caramel popcorn. We’ve got something to celebrate! Reality television doesn’t have a great track record when it comes to representing its cast members positively or fairly as increased drama equals increased eyeballs. The risks only multiply when the subjects are Orthodox Jews, a group often vilified in the media. But Aaron Zutler, co-founder […]
This Friday night begins the joyful minor holiday of Tu b’Av, the fifteenth of the month of Av. The Talmud says besides Yom Kippur, there was no other holy day as happy for the Jews as Tu b’Av. In the times of the Temple, unmarried Jewish women would dress in white and dance in the vineyards, […]
At the 2nd annual Jewish Media Awards, held at Lincoln Center on November 12, 2024, “We Will Dance Again,” was honored with a Keter Shem Tov Award for its courageous and compassionate storytelling in the wake of tragedy. The documentary, distributed by Paramount (set to merge with Skydance this Thursday), centers on the October 7th […]
The culmination of the Three Weeks, an annual time of mourning the destruction of The Beis HaMikdash (Holy Temple) is Tisha b’Av. It is the saddest day of the Jewish year and the most calamitous in our history. So great was our pain on this day as a nation, that each year we commemorate it […]
Although it was only a pretend cell phone it came really close to hitting my father’s head after my three year old son slung across the room the day we arrived in Israel for our yearly Passover trip. It played annoying music and had no volume control, but I had bought it the day before […]
New York City, the place where 9/11 happened less than twenty-five years ago, the home of one of the largest populations of Jews in the world, is on its way to electing a pro-terror, Jew-hating mayor. Not only does Zohran Mamdani refuse to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” – a chant that explicitly means […]
